Car-door.



A. A. DAVIS.

GAR DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1909.

927,332. v Patented July 6,1909.

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ALMERIAN A. DAVIS, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

GAR-DOOR.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Armenian A. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hammond, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Doors, of which the tollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car doors and car door hanging devices, aarticularly with reference to car doors such as are used on double deck stock cars employed for transporting hogs, sheep and other small animals and the said invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide oar doors of the class indicated with means for hanging such car doors so that either the upper or lower door may be moved to open or closed position independently of the other, a further object being to provide cheap, simple, strong and durable means for hanging such car doors and ermitting them to be readily opened and c osed.

In the accompanying drawings :--Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a double deck stock car provided with door and door hanging devices constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the hanger or guard element which is provided with an offset to clear the intermediate track and the hangers of the other door.

In accordance with my invention, the car on which the upper and lower doors 1, 2, are employed, is provided with an upper track member 3, an intermediate track member 4 and a lower track member 5. The intermediate track member extends beyond each side of the door-ways or openings 6, a distance slightly greater than the width of such door-ways. At the ends of said intermediate traclr members and spacing the same suitably from the wall of the car are brackets 7 which support such intermediate track stops at the ends thereof. The upper track member 3 which is above the upper door-way extends a suiIicient distance beyond one side of said doorway to enable the door 1 which is suspended from said track member to clear said doorway. The lower track member 5 which is below the lower door-way extends a corresponding distance from the opposite side thereof so that the upper door must be Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. February 4, 1909.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Serial No. 76,143.

moved in one direction in order to open it and the lower door must in order to open it be moved in the reverse direction.

The upper and lower doors are provided at their upper corners with hangers 5%, the upper ends of which project above the upper sides of the doors and are provided. with openings through which the upper and intermediate track members extend so that said upper and lower doors are respectively suspended from said upper and intermediate track members. The lower door is also provided at its lower corners with similar hang ers 9 which operate on the lower track men1- her. The upper door has at its lower outer corner a similar hanger 10 which operates on the intermediate track member. At the inner lower corner of said upper door is a guard member 11, which as shown in detail in 2, comprises an upper portion 12 which bears on the outer side of the door and may be secured thereto as by means of screws and has at the lower edge of the upper door a laterally inwardly extending portion 1.3 from the inner side of which depends an offset guard arm or stop 14.- which by reason of the portion 13 is disposed within the plane of the upper hangers of the lower door so that said guard arm clears said upper hangers of the lower door and enables the upper and lower doors to be operated ind ependently of each other. The said stop or guard arm as will be noted upon reference to Fig. 1. of the drawings extends below the intermediate trach members as well as be tween the same and the 2L;:)1.)10Xl1112ti76 wall of the car or other structure so that said stop arm prevents the lower inner corner of the upper door from moving outwardly from the side of the stock car since it will be caused to come in contact with the intermediate track member as soon as the lower inner corner of the track door has been moved outwardly for a slight distance.

The usual stop strips against which the door closes are indicated at 15 on opposite sides of the upper and lower (leer-ways anr. the doors are shown as provided with handles 16 to facilitate their being opened and closed and with hasps 17 for engagement with staples 18 on the stop strips to enable the doors to be locked in closed position.

It will be understood from the foregoing description and by reference to the drawings I I I l of the other door, and also providellm'lth a offset stop extending between the side structure and the intermediate track ment and those hanger members of the othe door which engage said intermediate traek stop clearing said intermediate element, said v hangtraek element and the last mentioned ers of the other door.

In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALMERIAN A. DAVTS. l/Vitnesses THOMAS Noeixoin, Jos. W. Wnis. 

